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  Jens-Christian Svenning handle.invalid · Jan 10
  Our best estimate of Europe's "forest" structure prior to the #megafauna #extinctions: Temperate Europe had high local #vegetation heterogeneity, on average 17% open vegetation, 21% closed #forest & 63% light #woodland ➡️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061 #TIBS2026
  
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  Jens-Christian Svenning handle.invalid · Mar 24, 2025
  Looking forward to give my perspective on the recent prehistoric #megafauna #extinctions on the Cambridge Prisms' Real World Challenges Seminar Series on Wednesday cassyni.com/events/Pp9Mi... 🦣 ✝️ 🦏 ✝️ 🐎 ✝️🐂 ✝️🐆 #Pleistocene #Holocene #paleoecology #ecosystems #rewilding #mammals
  
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  Jens-Christian Svenning handle.invalid · Mar 18, 2025
  🔬🌍The late-Quaternary #extinctions led to novel #herbivore assemblages worldwide🦏🦣 🌿47–64% of today’s assemblages are functionally novel 🔥Large areas w/ novel assemblages have #biome states sensitive to these changes, eg via #fire 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #NovelEcosystems #Defaunation #Vegetation
  

  The Late‐Quaternary Extinctions Gave Rise to Functionally Novel Herbivore Assemblages

  We find that 47% of assemblages are functionally novel, indicating that fundamental changes in herbivore impacts have occurred across the world. On 20% of land, functionally novel herbivore assemblag....

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  Jens-Christian Svenning handle.invalid · Nov 11, 2024
  The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the #extinction of large #mammals (+large #birds & #reptiles)-press release on our review on the #megafauna #extinctions & their consequences 🦙🐘🦣🐆https://bit.ly/4fpwMFs 🦣🌿🌍 #ecology #paleobiology #archaeology #rewilding
  

  The evidence is mounting: humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

  Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from researchers at Aarhus University, who reviewed over ...

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